3 AM Dreams

     When I am waken up in the middle of the night by a phone call there are a bout 5 million things that run through my head. First thought would be "I wonder what time it is?" and in the middle of that thought I jump straight to "Did something awful happen?." This thought usually wakes my mind up and gets me going. I will stumble across the room, stub my toe, and run into the wall all as I slide down my answer bar on the phone. Then I usually hear a very apologetic voice on the other end of someone who wants to talk or was thinking of me and wondering if I was awake.
     As I sit back and think about the many things that could possibly happen in one night, terrible things like car accidents, or wonderful things like a baby being born, I think about how amazing it is that I don't get more calls in the middle of the night for emergencies. Sometimes sure it is awful to be woken up "in the middle of a sleep cycle" but every once and again, being woken up for a short while isn't too bad. It breaks the night up, and makes me think about that person alone. My mind is clear and my thoughts are steady. Then I drift back into dreamland, where the time seems endless and all of my senses are heightened. Dreams come slowly for me and I rarely remember them, but I know how relaxing a dream can be.


“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.” - Oprah


--Ashley